Harness



` UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE H. INGALLS, OF VARNER, N EIV HAMPSHIRE, A SSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO GUSTAVUS W. INGALLS, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,642, dated March 25, 1884.

4Application filed January 28, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. INGALLS, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Warner, in the county of Merrimac and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

` clear, and exactdescription of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or gures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to devices for securing neck straps to breaststraps or breastplates. Hitherto this has usually been done by inserting a ring to which the end of the neck-strap is fastened between the body of the breast-strap and a supplementalfold or layer, and sewing the layer and strap together, so as to hold the ring. This produces a bunch in the breast-strap which is uncomfortable and in other respects undesirable. It also keeps the `neck-strap at all points near the animals necks() that the-'hair is worn off. Finally,

the stitches are easily ripped by the greatstrain to which this part of the harness is subjected, and the neck-strap andbreast-strap then come apart.

My object in this invention is to obviate the above defects and produce a better` and more reliable means of attaching neck-straps and breast-straps than any heretofore in use.

To this end my invention consists in the oombination of a face-plate with the breast-strap and neck-strap ring of a harness, whereby the said ring is secured to the breast-strap or breastplate outside of the same.

.It also consists in the special construction and means of attachment of said face-plate, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents an elevation of a part of a breast.- plate or breast-strap with my face-plate and ring attached thereto, also a short strap and buckle attached to said ring for holding the neck-strap. Fig. 2 represents a vertical transverse section of the same on the line a of Fig.

l; Fig. 3, a perspective view, taken from be- 5o low, of another form of my face-plate embodying my invention, and the contiguous part of the breast-strap, the hidden portions of said face-platebeing indicated by dotted lines. Fig.

4 represents a detail view, in vertical section, 55 of another form of my face-plate embodying my'invention. Fig. 5 represents a vertical transverse section of the modiication shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 represents the ring sewed to the breast-strap after the usual and well- 6o known manner.

A designates the body of a breast-strap or breast-plate; B, the additional fold or layer on the front thereof; C, the ring, and-D a short strap and buckle secured thereto for the attachment of the neck-strap.

In Fig. 6, which is merely illustrative of the old way of fastening the ring to the breaststrap, a part of said ring is inserted'between the body A and the supplemental fold or layer 7o B, and there secured by sewing these two parts together over and around it.. In each ofthe other figures I show a plate, E, which I call a face-plate, or a fastening-plate, which is wholly or in part on tlie outside of supple- 475 mental layer B, and is provided with a semiannular groove, e, which receives the lower part of the ringC. In Fig. 1 I have shown this face-plate as terminating at the upper and lower edges of layer B, and provided with 8o bent lips e e, which t on said edges. Rivets E are passed through it, and also through the breast-strap body A and layer B and hold these three parts rmly together and the ring in its place. These rivets, however, need not pass through body A, but may simply fasten the face-plate to the layer B.

In. Fig. `.3 I show another form of my faceplate embodying my invention, which uses no rivets, the face-plate being doubled and 9o clinched upon itself, so as to inclose the layer B. To effect this, I provide the upper edge or" the front of said plate with an extension, F, and bend the same through the ringC and down between breast-strap body A and supplemental llayer or fold B. rIhe lower edge of this extension F, thus bent, is provided with short tongues f, and these are bent and clinched over a downward flange, e, formed on the lip e" of said plate, which llip overlaps the lower edge of layer B.

In Fig. 4: the lower part of the plate E is provided with an extension, G, which is bent up between thebody A and supplemental strap or layer B, and a rivet, H, is passed through from the front ofsaid plate to the rear of said extension, clamping'said plate to said layer of the breast-strap. As this rivet passes through the ring, it will prevent the detachment of the latter. Of course, other rivets may be employed also, either inside or outside of' the ring,

or both. These various constructions (Figs. l to inclusive) all have in common the attachment of the ring on theoutside of the supplemental layer, and this inevitablyT removes the end'of the neck-strap from the animals neck, thus keeping the strap clean, and avoid ing the rubbing off of the hair and making sores in the 'horses skin. rlhey also have in l common the use of a face-plate and the attachment of the ring to the breast-plate by metallic fastenings attached thereto or forming part thereof.

It is obvious that such a method of attachment is very strong and durable, as Well as cheap, neat, and easy of application. i

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A face-plate provided with a curved groove for holding a neck-strap ring, in combination with said ring, a breast-strap, and means for securing said ring to the outside of G, the face-plate E, provided with extension v F, tongues f, and iiange e3, said extension being bent through said ring and behind said layer, and said tongues clinched on said iiange, substantially as set forth.

lIn testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE H. INGALLS.

Witnesses:

A. P. Davis, B. F. HEATH. 

